US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Sept. 9 for "Identifying candidate replacement items from a graph identifying relationships between items maintained by an online concierge system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,206, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Identifying candidate replacement items from a graph identifying relationships between items maintained by an online concierge system" was invented by Abhay Pawar (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online concierge system maintains a graph of items available for purchase. The graph maintains edges between items, where an edge between an item and an additional item indicates that one or more customers have previously replaced the item with the additional item. The edge between the item and the additional item also identifies a number of times ...